Procedure to certify and view the .protect file

The procedure below certifies a measurement routine and creates a .protect file. The Protect Viewer application lets you see the .protect file. For information on the Protect Viewer application, see the Protect Viewer Help file.

To certify and view the .protect file, follow these steps:

Prerequisites

To certify a measurement routine, you must be a member of the Protect-Programmer group and have the Protect Viewer LMS license enabled.
To view the .protect file, you must have the "Protect Viewer" application installed on your computer.

Create a measurement routine.
Certify a measurement routine. To do this, click File | Operations | Certify, or from the File Operations toolbar (View | Toolbars | File Operations), click Certify (). The software opens the Certify Routine dialog box.
From the Certify Routine dialog box, in the Comments box, type your comments, and click Certify. This step saves and certifies the measurement routine and generates the .protect file.
Locate the new .protect file. It has the same name as your measurement routine's file name with a .protect extension. The default folder is:

C:\Users\Public\Documents\Hexagon\PC-DMIS\2023.1

If the measurement routine file name is ABC.PRG, then the .protect file name is ABC.PRG.protect.

Double-click the .protect file, or right-click it, and select Open to open the file in Protect Viewer application. For information on Protect Viewer, see the Protect Viewer application.